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Fern Bank Salamander
Eurycea pterophila Burger, Smith, and Potter, 1950

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Fern Bank Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea neotenes pterophila: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Fern Bank Salamander (Eurycea neotenes pterophila: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1950 Burger, W. Leslie, Hobart M. Smith and Floyd E. Potter, Jr. Another neotenic Eurycea from the Edwards Plateau. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 63():51-58

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